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It’s here.
The months of hype, the reams of speculation about success or failure, the arguments between the gushers and the bashers have all come down to this day.
This evening, those willing to wait in line and plunk down their money will be able to behold something beautiful.
It’s elegantly designed. Every detail was sweat over, deliberated […]

While I prefer tactile buttons over flat touch screens, Apple may change my mind. The iPhone touch screen keyboard takes full advantage of the ability to change the behavior through software. Here are some of the key benefits:

The keys change depending on the context
The strike zone for a key gets bigger around the most likely […]

I wrote a while back about Geomas, and the patent they acquired for local search. Even though US patent criteria require the invention to be non-obvious to be eligible for patent protection. That claim was pretty specious in 1999 when the Geomas patent was issued.
It was even MORE non-obvious when ANOTHER patent was issued for […]

I’ll grant that iPod fans have been known to go to extremes to profess their love for their MP3 players. But Zune fans? First off, how many die hard Zune fans are there?
Apparently, one, at least.
mszunefan, as he’s known now has 2 Zune tattoos. Since he’s so devoted to all things Zune, he’s going to […]

The guys at Red Gate have organized the “Business of Software Conference” to be held October 29-30th in San Jose, California. The speakers list was apparently cribbed directly from my RSS reader! (I must be the only one who reads all of these people regularly, right? Right?) The list includes:

Joel Spolsky
Eric Sink
Guy Kawasaki
Rick Chapman
Dan Nunan
and […]

Scott Berkun (The Art of Project Management and The Myths of Innovation) has outlined the development methodologies that we all know, but never discuss. For example:
Asshole Driven development (ADD) - Any team where the biggest jerk makes all the big decisions is asshole driven development. All wisdom, logic or process goes out the window when […]

I don’t try to hide my love for technology that lets people work from anywhere. If the best developer I can find for a project is in Anchorage, Alaska, and I’m in Florida, why should I let something like 4,787 miles get in the way? Seriously, we have all worked in jobs where everyone is […]

This could have been big. Still might be, but not yet.
I’ve mentioned before that I want to see technology enable the totally virtual organization. Tools like Basecamp, Highrise and Campfire go a long way toward that. But one of the areas that I think have been lacking is face-to-face communication. Sometimes, you just have […]

Have you ever been part of a committee or organization that was formed to complete a specific task? And after that task was complete, there was an inertia that tried to keep the committee going? Some might have tried to find a new purpose, or tried to convince everyone that there was more work to […]

What do you get when you combine a patent office that doesn’t understand technology, entrepreneurs who will do anything for a buck, the U.S. love for “jackpot justice,” and venture capitalists looking for a quick return on investment?
Geomas.
UK-based Geomas acquired a patent that was issued in 1999 for location based searching. In other words, restrict […]

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